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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. LeanXcale vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. LeanXcale vs. NuoDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.leanxcale.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerLeanXcaleDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20122016200820152013
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infothrough Apache Derbyyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava, SQL
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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